This was my third cruise, first time with Royal Caribbean so it was fun to compare and contrast the different ship lines that I have been on. I traveled with my family and we had rooms throughout the ship so we were able to get a wide view of how things worked as well.

We sailed out of Seward and I have to say, it was the fastest embarkation that I have ever been a part of. My family was able to start getting on the boat at 1130am! I was through the signin and security in less than five minutes and ready to get on the boat. We had our luggage within three hours of getting on the ship and were allowed into our rooms starting at 1pm. Since we had a late sail day out of Seward, a lot of people got on and off the ship to check the cute town out. We opted to explore the ship and go swimming instead, just because we were in Alaska and wanted to swim outside!

The rooms were neat and tidy. We had a window room and thankfully it had dark curtains in it so we were able to sleep even though the sun never really went down. My brother in law had an interior room with no window and stated he slept amazing due to no light at all. Our room was always clean and ready to go when we went to it. Our steward was courteous and hung out in the hall so he could open the door for us when we came by. I was sad that we didn't get towel animals every day. Of the 7 days that we sailed, we only got 3 towel animals. While I know this is something silly, it is something I really look forward to at the end of the night so I was sad that none of my family got animals more than 3 times. Also, don't plan on watching TV when you are there. On other ships, they have new release movies playing on a loop, but this boat simply had regular programming complete with commercials on a loop. Read more